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THE DAILY EDITION

Friday, 18 September 2026

A complete daily edition from the Aizanoi News archive.

Football

Real Madrid visit Atletico in Sunday La Liga derbi preview

Real Madrid travel across the city to face Atletico Madrid at the Metropolitano on Sunday in a La Liga matchweek-six derbi that pits the second-placed side against their neighbours after Espi's stoppage-time winner at Elche moved Real level on points with Barcelona.

Sources The Guardian

Football

Brentford host Chelsea in Friday-night Premier League opener

Brentford welcome Chelsea to the Gtech Community Stadium on Friday night at 20:00 local time (19:00 UTC) in the opening fixture of Premier League Matchweek 5, with both sides unbeaten in their last six and last five league meetings respectively against each other.

Sources Brentford FCBBC Sport

Football

Raphinha hat-trick powers Barcelona to 7-2 rout of Racing Santander

Barcelona extended their perfect La Liga start to six wins from six matches with a 7-2 victory over Racing Santander at the Spotify Camp Nou on Wednesday, opening up a three-point lead over Real Madrid at the top of the table.

Sources Tempo7M Sport (Goal)

Economy / Markets

European stocks rise as miners lead on softer oil, easing bond rout

European equities advanced on Thursday with the pan-European STOXX 600 up 0.9 percent to 642.6 points as falling oil prices and a halt to the global bond sell-off boosted risk appetite.

Sources UrduPoint / WAMTradingView / CNBC TV18

Economy / Markets

US stocks rebound as Fed-inflation read eases tech-led selloff

US equities snapped a three-session losing streak on Thursday, with the Dow up 0.61 percent to 51,778.18, the S&P 500 climbing 1.14 percent to 7,637.73 and the Nasdaq Composite advancing 1.69 percent to 26,418.30 as falling oil prices and softer Treasury yields offset the Federal Reserve's hawkish 25 basis point rate hike on Wednesday.

Sources Seoul Economic DailyTech Flow Post

Technology

Amazon signs up to $8B Generac deal for data-centre backup power

Amazon and Generac unveiled a long-term supply agreement worth up to $8 billion on Thursday for backup power generators at Amazon data centres, with initial deliveries of $2.4 billion expected in 2027 and 2028 as the hyperscaler scales its AI build-out.

Sources AI Weekly

Technology

Nvidia's Huang says 2027 chip sales will roughly double 2026

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Thursday the company expects to sell roughly twice as many AI accelerators in 2027 as it did this year, as it ramps the next-generation Vera Rubin family for hyperscale and sovereign-cloud customers.

Sources Schwab Network (Facebook)

Technology

Google opens Home MCP to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents

Google on Tuesday opened early access to a Model Context Protocol server for its Google Home ecosystem, allowing MCP-compatible agents including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's own Antigravity to read device state, review camera history and execute control actions across Nest-style smart-home devices.

Sources TechCrunchGoogle Home Developers

Economy / Markets

Bank of Japan raises rate 25bp to 1.25%, highest since 1995

The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by 25 basis points to 1.25 percent on Friday, the highest level in 31 years, in a 7-2 vote that delivered its second hike in three months and the sixth since exiting ultra-loose policy in 2024.

Sources ReutersAlpha Pilot

AI

Suno launches v6 AI music models trained on licensed Warner, BMG data

AI music platform Suno on Thursday officially launched its v6 family of models, developed in partnership with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe to replace the company's earlier generation systems that had been the subject of copyright litigation.

Sources Embers News

AI

Insilico releases open LongevityBench toolkit and benchmark in Cell

Insilico Medicine on Thursday announced a study published in Cell introducing LongevityBench, an open benchmark of 17 tasks spanning clinical data, genetics, epigenetics, transcriptomics and proteomics, alongside a family of five compact Longevity-LLMs ranging from 0.6 to 9 billion parameters and the Longevity Claw agentic research platform.

Sources DigestAI NewsGitHub: ai-daily-digest

AI

Anthropic folds Claude Chat and Cowork into single unified interface

Anthropic is rolling Claude Cowork back into the regular Claude product, merging the conversational assistant and the autonomous task-execution tool into one interface alongside the new beta products Claude Docs and Claude Slides, with Claude Design now available inside every conversation rather than as a standalone.

Sources ZDNETAnthropic

AI

Huawei pulls 2027 AI-chip launch forward to take on Nvidia

Huawei Technologies will release two new AI chips in 2027, rotating chairman David Wang said at the Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai on Thursday, accelerating the flagship Ascend 960DT to the first quarter of 2027 from a planned late-2027 debut and following with the 960PR variant in the third quarter.

Sources ReutersThe Straits TimesThe Standard

AI

AI neocloud Crusoe raises $3.9B Series F at $30.9B post-money

Denver-based neocloud Crusoe closed a $3.9 billion Series F on Thursday at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, with Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners co-leading and Founders Fund, GIC, Nvidia, the Qatar Investment Authority, Radical Ventures and TPG also participating.

Sources ReutersTechCrunch

Technology

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max go on sale in India with early queues

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max went on sale in India on Friday 18 September with customers queuing outside Apple stores in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, including at the Select Citywalk Mall in Saket and the Imagine Apple premium reseller at Mall of Asia in Bengaluru, before doors opened at 8 am IST.

Sources CNBC TV18Apple Newsroom